Music combines the temporal aspects of film and dance with the spatial aspects of painting and sculpture… — Daniel Levitin

Music combines the temporal aspects of film and dance with the spatial aspects of painting and sculpture, where pitch space (or frequency space) takes the place of three-dimensional physical space... frequency maps in the auditory cortex... function much the way that spatial maps do in the visual cortex.

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